News Maca, Acciona, Aecom win Melbourne’s M80 Ring Road Completion Thiess Group company Maca Civil has been picked to design and build the M80 Ring Road Completion in Melbourne, Australia in partnership with Acciona and designer Aecom. The project will…
News Acciona, Cimic and Ghella win $2.4bn Australian rail contract A team made up of Spain’s Acciona, Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors and Italy’s Ghella has signed a US$2.4bn tunnelling contract for Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East project. The Suburban…
News Booming Western Australia offers £6,000 to woo British workers Britain’s builders are being offered a £6,000 sweetener to lure them to sunny Western Australia. The Australian state is experiencing a construction boom on the back of multi-million-pound government investment…
News UGL and CPB land role on New South Wales’ HumeLink Cimic Group companies UGL and CPB Contractors have been selected by Transgrid to deliver the western section of the HumeLink high voltage electricity transmission project. Spanning some 385km, HumeLink will…
News Broad Construction to build Australian robotics and manufacturing centre Australian contractor Broad Construction is to build a Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Centre in the campus of a Queensland university. Technical and Further Education Queensland (TAFE) is working on the…
Trends Getting to grips with unsafe cladding in New South Wales The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) is attracting international attention for its approach to replacing flammable cladding on multi-unit residential buildings. Launched in March 2021 after the state…
News Cimic wins five-year Australian electricity contract UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has won a five-year contract with a US$50m ceiling to provide power-line maintenance and construction services in the Australian state of Victoria. The…
News Contreras Earl reveals second Melbourne vertiport as air taxis “to fly next year” Australian architect Contreras Earl has revealed its design for a second “vertiport” in Merlbourne. This will handle flying taxis at Batman Park and follows an earlier design for the city’s…
News CPB wins Australian air base jobs Australia’s Department of Defence has picked Cimic Group’s CPB Contractors for the early contractor involvement development phase for upgrades at air force bases Curtin and Learmonth in Western Australia. The…
News Rejuvenated Clough-BMD JV wins Darwin shiplift contract again A joint venture between rejuvenated contractor Clough and Queensland engineer BMD has for the second time won a contract to build a shiplift in the northern Australian port of Darwin for the Northern Territory state government.
News Acciona, Cimic and Ghella consortium wins 16km Melbourne tunnel contract A consortium led by Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors, Italian civil engineer Ghella and Spanish contractor Acciona are in line for a contract to excavate 16km of twin-bore tunnels for Melbourne’s…
News Cimic to build Queensland solar farm Cimic Group subsidiary Pacific Partnerships will develop, manage, and operate the 300MWdc Hopeland Solar Farm in Queensland, Australia. The solar farm will have the potential to generate enough electricity to…
News Cimic wins $324m Australian fuel network project UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has won a contract to provide strategic advice, planning, supply management, operations and maintenance for the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) fuel network. The…
Innovation How a temporary platform helped us upgrade a Sydney train station Transport for Tomorrow has pioneered the use of a temporary, modular railway platform surfaced with fibre-reinforced-polymer (FRP) to help with a station upgrade.
News UGL wins $330m contract for Australia’s biggest lithium producer American chemicals giant Albemarle has awarded a A$330m contract to Cimic group company UGL to double the size of its lithium hydroxide plant near Bunbury, Western Australia. UGL will build…
News First Nations-led design wins competition for Sydney harbour park A design team led by members of Australia’s First Nations has won a competition to design a 1.85ha park in the Barangaroo area of central Sydney. Harbour Park will offer…
News CPB to lead detailed design of Bundaberg’s $1.2bn new hospital The state government of Queensland, Australia has picked Cimic group company CPB Contractors to lead the detailed design phase of the A$1.2bn (US$788m) New Bundaberg Hospital. Bundaberg is a city…
News UGL to expand capacity at Queensland’s solar battery Australian contractor UGL and EV maker Tesla have been chosen to carry out an expansion of the Western Downs Battery project in Queensland for renewable energy specialist Neoen. At present,…